(1884.)
I. The Natural and the Supernatural--Living for the Benefit of
your Fellow-Man and Living for Ghosts--The Beginning of Doubt--Two
Philosophies of Life--Two Theories of Government--II. Is our God
superior to the Gods of the Heathen?--What our God has done--III. Two
Theories about the Cause and Cure of Disease--The First Physician--The
Bones of St. Anne Exhibited in New York--Archbishop Corrigan and
Cardinal Gibbons Countenance a Theological Fraud--A Japanese Story--The
Monk and the Miraculous Cures performed by the Bones of a Donkey
represented as those of a Saint--IV.--Two Ways of accounting for Sacred
Books and Religions--V-Two Theories about Morals--Nothing Miraculous
about Morality--The Test of all Actions--VI. Search for the
Impossible--Alchemy--"Perpetual Motion"--Astrology--Fountain of Perpetual
Youth--VII. "Great Men" and the Superstitions in which they have
Believed--VIII. Follies and Imbecilities of Great Men--We do not know
what they Thought, only what they Said--Names of Great Unbelievers--Most
Men Controlled by their Surroundings--IX. Living for God in Switzerland,
Scotland, New England--In the Dark Ages--Let us Live for Man--X. The
Narrow Road of Superstition--The Wide and Ample Way--Let us Squeeze the
Orange Dry--This Was, This Is, This Shall Be.